As reported in What Are You Reading?, I am a huge, huge, huge fan of writer George R.R. Martin's bold, bloody, brilliant epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. And I pretty much can't wait for HBO's adaptation of the series, Game of Thrones, which stars Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Mark Addy, and Lena Headey and hits televisions on April 17. Finally, of course, I like comics and cartooning. So here's a two-great-tastes-that-taste-great-together situation if ever there was one: deviantARTist Gianluca Maconi's A Song of Ice and Fire gallery, featuring drawings of many of the major characters. That's the black-clad bastard son Jon Snow and his direwolf Ghost above; click the link for Maconi's vivaciously drawn takes on the rest of the Stark family, the Lannister siblings, King Robert Baratheon, Danaerys Targaryen and more. (And if you're curious about the books but aren't convinced they're worth your while, allow me to make the case.) Winter can't come soon enough.